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[QUOTE="TeethWhitener, post: 6659275, member: 511972"] Important note: the slashes mean deceased (i.e., dead), not diseased. The fact that the answer key got this wrong indicates that maybe you’re using a low-quality textbook. The slash indicates these individuals have died, but says nothing about why they died. The filled in shapes indicate that they have Huntington’s disease. As for your questions: This seems incorrect, and makes me further doubt the quality of your textbook. In fact, since this person is not a descendant of the first generation (he “married into” the family, so to speak), there isn’t really anything you can deduce about him from the earlier generation. The fact that none of their kids have Huntington’s means that this individual must have at least one recessive allele (since HD is dominant). So if anything, his genotype is a/-. Strictly speaking, this is more accurate, because you don’t know with any confidence whether Susan’s mother is aa or Aa. Since Susan’s mother has not developed symptoms, it is very likely that she is aa, but there is a small chance that she is Aa. The other thing to note is that the genotype for the male in the first generation is likely aa, rather than the Aa indicated in the answer key, as Aa would very likely have developed HD symptoms later in life. One disadvantage of a genogram like this is that it gives no indication of cause of death. If the first gen male was Aa but died in a car wreck at age 30, he likely would have been too young to develop HD symptoms, whereas if he had lived to age 50, he likely would have begun to develop signs of the disease. [/QUOTE]
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